Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #622025Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: hanc...
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:12
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:12
15 lines
2680 bytes
2680 bytes
On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 1:09:23 AM UTC-4, Mike Spencer wrote: > Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations > of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of > a social responsibility other than to make as much money for > their stockholders as possible. -- Milton Friedman The film Executive Suite just aired on TCM. Great movie. In the climatic scene, there is a shown between the comptroller who is only interested in maximizing return to the shareholders, by any means possible; and another VP, who has a long term view and cares also about the customers and employees. (Fredic March played the comptroller and William Holden play the other VP.)
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<4d0b61e8-2eba-478b-ae00-63ccd03e165c@googlegroups.com>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!p41-v6ni77qtp.1!nntp.google.com!x25-v6no3333178qto.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mailReferences:
<pbfi85$ek7$1@dont-email.me> <pbfpo4$2hdt$1@gal.iecc.com> <6g2tqe-i3i.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> <pbikoe$2eq4$1@gal.iecc.com> <fk45t5F51o3U1@mid.individual.net> <20180423063942.76a51e6385f9ecf936b654f4@eircom.net> <aa7d0829-5db2-474e-87a2-a9f1852e2eff@googlegroups.com> <pbkt5l$puq$1@dont-email.me> <0839c169-eafd-4a18-8697-4c7b34896fb6@googlegroups.com> <gn0tdd5g5a8epi3fvcj3av8e8imbtjrpg4@4ax.com> <8a3d5a06-1fef-4a62-8950-eb9ca22453e0@googlegroups.com> <52gvddhi1t79uiu5gcrfmb9309upomi8na@4ax.com> <pbpfm8$o77$2@dont-email.me> <1e65db72-3d19-420b-bf5d-5d9bb96329b4@googlegroups.com> <87sh7ituyr.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Received: by 2002:ac8:7298:: with SMTP id v24-v6mr17210622qto.3.1524773555165; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:12:35 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:aed:21f9:: with SMTP id m54-v6ls13726074qtc.7.gmail; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:ac8:2dd5:: with SMTP id q21-v6mr8514458qta.48.1524773554366; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.31.199.67 with SMTP id x64mr5001899vkf.7.1524773554172; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!p41-v6ni77qtp.1!nntp.google.com!x25-v6no3333178qto.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:12:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87sh7ituyr.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Complaints-To: groups...@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=8.41.192.198; posting-account=WKyNOQkAAACNglsCZiIox1kdy9R-66KH NNTP-Posting-Host: 8.41.192.198 References: <pbfi85$ek7$1@dont-email.me> <pbfpo4$2hdt$1@gal.iecc.com> <6g2tqe-i3i.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> <pbikoe$2eq4$1@gal.iecc.com> <fk45t5F51o3U1@mid.individual.net> <20180423063942.76a51e6385f9ecf936b654f4@eircom.net> <aa7d0829-5db2-474e-87a2-a9f1852e2eff@googlegroups.com> <pbkt5l$puq$1@dont-email.me> <0839c169-eafd-4a18-8697-4c7b34896fb6@googlegroups.com> <gn0tdd5g5a8epi3fvcj3av8e8imbtjrpg4@4ax.com> <8a3d5a06-1fef-4a62-8950-eb9ca22453e0@googlegroups.com> <52gvddhi1t79uiu5gcrfmb9309upomi8na@4ax.com> <pbpfm8$o77$2@dont-email.me> <1e65db72-3d19-420b-bf5d-5d9bb96329b4@googlegroups.com> <87sh7ituyr.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4d0b61e8-2eba-478b-ae00-63ccd03e165c@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ... From: hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:12:34 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit